Pietersite Ring / Cabochon / new- 8.4 g - (1)

Ring Pietersite / Cabochon / new

Set in 925 sterling silver

Total weight: 8.40 g

24.2 mm x 14.6 mm

New and unworn

Ring size:

U 59
UK R
US 8.7
Fr 19
Inner diameter: 18.8 mm

Pietersite is the trade name for a breccia-like mixture of hawk’s eye and tiger’s eye, ranging from dark blue-gray to brown-yellow in color and, by definition, a rock.

Pietersite was discovered in 1962 by Sidney “Sid” Pieters in Southwest Africa (now Namibia), and the stone is named after him. The exact finding location is given as Hopewell Farm, about 40 km northeast of the town of Outjo in the Kunene region. The only other known locality (as of 2017) is Nanyang in Henan Province, China, where Pietersite was discovered in 1993.

Pietersite is used exclusively as a gemstone and is offered in cabochon or tabular cuts, as well as crafted into decorative objects.

Other sources describe Pietersite as a variety of chalcedony with fibrous inclusions of amphibole minerals. Hawks’ eye and tiger’s eye are, however, microcrystalline varieties of quartz, meaning they share the same basic substance, and the crocidolite- or hornblende-fibers embedded in tiger’s and hawk’s eye belong to the amphibole group.

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